How long should it take to download or upload a large file?
The following is intended to help answer what your computer is capable of in terms of upload and download speeds in ideal settings. This is similar to the question of “How fast can my car go on a wide open level road if I put the pedal to the metal?”. To get a rough idea of what your Internet connection speed is you can visit this Internet speed test site and connect to the server in Washington D.C. Bear in mind that if you share an Internet connection with coworkers your download speed will be related to how many others are accessing the Internet during your download. The speed site gives speeds in kbps (kilobits per second). If your file is 100 MB (megabytes), it is 800 megabits (there are 8 bits in one byte) or approximately 800,000 kilobits. You can find out how long a large file transfer should take in an ideal setting by dividing the file size in kilobits by the Internet download or upload speed you get from this site. This will give you the number of seconds it would take so div
